UPCOMING EVENTS
Dalcroze for the 21st Century Musician:
Performance, Improvisation, and Pedagogy
with Dr. Gregory Ristow, Dalcroze Diplome Superior Candidate; Associate Professor of Conducting, Director of Vocal Ensembles, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Sunday, October 6th, 2019
1pm-4pm
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak St, San Francisco, CA 94102
$50 - Regular Rate
$25 - Dalcroze Society of America members/SFCM faculty/students with active ID
This three hour workshop is for adult music students, performers, pedagogues, and professionals. No previous Dalcroze experience required. Dr. Gregory Ristow will lead participants through the comprehensive method of Dalcroze using meaningful movement and interactive activities, including a particular focus on Eurhythmics and Dalcroze’s creative and joyful approach to ear training. Students and seasoned professionals alike will gain a deeper understanding of music; learning innovative approaches for teaching, composing, improvising, and performing.
Performance, Improvisation, and Pedagogy
with Dr. Gregory Ristow, Dalcroze Diplome Superior Candidate; Associate Professor of Conducting, Director of Vocal Ensembles, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Sunday, October 6th, 2019
1pm-4pm
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak St, San Francisco, CA 94102
$50 - Regular Rate
$25 - Dalcroze Society of America members/SFCM faculty/students with active ID
This three hour workshop is for adult music students, performers, pedagogues, and professionals. No previous Dalcroze experience required. Dr. Gregory Ristow will lead participants through the comprehensive method of Dalcroze using meaningful movement and interactive activities, including a particular focus on Eurhythmics and Dalcroze’s creative and joyful approach to ear training. Students and seasoned professionals alike will gain a deeper understanding of music; learning innovative approaches for teaching, composing, improvising, and performing.
Gregory Ristow directs the Oberlin College Choir and Musical Union and teaches courses in vocal chamber music and conducting. He has conducted with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Houston's Foundation for Modern Music, the Voices chamber choir in Rochester, N.Y., as artistic director of Encore Vocal Arts in Indianapolis, and as assistant conductor of the Gregory Kunde Chorale in Rochester. He has sung with the Houston Chamber Choir and Houston’s Mercury Baroque, and has been called a performer with "star quality" who was "striking whenever he appeared on stage" (Indianapolis Examiner).
In addition to his work as a choral conductor, Ristow is in demand as a teacher of Dalcroze eurhythmics, a method of teaching music through movement. He served as instructor of eurhythmics at the Eastman School of Music (2009-11) and between 2004 and 2011 frequently directed the Eastman Summer Dalcroze Institute, an intensive program for teachers looking to incorporate Dalcroze eurhythmics techniques in their teaching. He served on the faculty of the Eastman Summer Choral Conducting Institute, where he taught eurhythmics-based movement classes for conductors and classes on using eurhythmics in choral rehearsals.
Ristow earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting at the Eastman School of Music, where he taught undergraduate and graduate conducting and was assistant conductor of the Eastman Chorale and the Eastman-Rochester Chorus. While at Eastman, Ristow received the TA Award for excellence in teaching and the Edward Curtis Peck Award for excellence in teaching by a graduate student. He earned a bachelor’s degree in music education at Oberlin Conservatory, master’s degrees in conducting and music theory pedagogy at the Eastman School of Music, a Dalcroze certificate at the Juilliard School (studying with Robert Abramson), and a Dalcroze license at the Longy School of Music (studying with Anne Farber and Lisa Parker). He has studied piano with Lydia Frumkin, harpsichord with William Porter, and voice with mezzo-soprano Kathryn Cowdrick.
In addition to his role at Oberlin, Ristow conducts the Interlochen Singers and teaches eurhythmics at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Previously, he served as director of choirs at the DePauw University School of Music (2011-15), the Rochester Institute of Technology (2009-11), and at Lone Star College-Montgomery (2004-09), where he received the 2008 Faculty Excellence Award.
“When I was a sophomore, my piano teacher at Oberlin steered me towards Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and studying it helped me find a freedom of expression in my playing, teaching and improvising that I hadn’t known was possible. By connecting music to movement, and teaching music through studying movement, Eurhythmics makes the invisible elements of music visible and erases barriers to learning and communication.”
Past Events
Dalcroze for All
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with Emma Shubin and Shoko Hino, Dalcroze Licentiates
FEATURING LIVE TEACHING DEMONSTRATION WITH STUDENTS!!!!!
Sunday, April 14th, 2018
12:30-4:30
Crowden Music Center, Berkeley
$65
$50 with Dalcroze Society of America membership/active student ID/Crowden family or faculty
This workshop is a truly comprehensive experience of Dalcroze education. Both Emma and Shoko are nationally-acclaimed Dalcroze educators, each bringing their own unique style to the Dalcroze method. We also have the rare opportunity to observe a live demonstration of the method in action with students from the Crowden School. Meet other Dalcroze practitioners and enthusiasts here in the bay area and find out the benefits of joining our Bay Area chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America!
Shoko Hino is a pianist and a licensed Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher. She has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. She holds a DMA in Piano Performance from University of Missouri-Kansas City and a license in Jaques-Dalcroze Eurhythmics from Longy School of Music. She has given Dalcroze workshops at CSU Fullerton, CSU Dominguez Hills, California Institute of the Arts, Mount Saint Mary's College, and Pasadena Conservatory, as well as the Southern California Suzuki Institute. Most recently, she was a guest clinician at the Orange County School of the Arts Choral Festival. In addition to teaching piano and eurhythmics classes to children and adults, she has co-directed and taught an intergenerational class combining older adults and kinesiology undergraduate students in the Kinesiology Department at CSU San Marcos. She has also sang with the LA-based early music choral group, Jouyssance for several years. Currently, she gives Dalcroze Eurhythmics workshops, works as a church musician in Carlsbad, sings with Sorelle San Diego, a women's chamber chorus and enjoys living in north San Diego with her husband and two children.
Dalcroze Practicum 2019
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SUNDAYS 12:30-4:30pm January 6 February 3 March 3 April 14 |
Once a month we will gather to learn and practice the fundamentals of Dalcroze Education: Pedagogy, eurhythmics, Solfege, and improvisation. We will also have the opportunity to workshop with each other to find and develop the ways in which we apply Dalcroze techniques into our own work and lives. Each session builds upon the last, with directions for study between sessions. While the explicit goal of this series is not to prepare participants for Dalcroze certification, the skills learned provide a solid foundation for anyone wanting to pursue Dalcroze certification at an accredited training center in the United States.
Curriculum will address:
• Musicianship
o Musical expression and understanding
o Active listening and inner hearing
o Music literacy
o Aural memory
o Visual memory
o Sight reading and dictation
o Choreography as related to music composition
• The body as an instrument of learning and expression
o The senses: aural (musical and verbal), visual, tactile, proprioceptive/kinesthetic
o Kinesthetic memory
o Motor control: coordination, balance, posture, and flexibility
o Spatial awareness
o Weight, quality, and intention as it relates to musical meaning, precision, and economy
o Movement vocabulary and technique
• Improvisation
o Imagination, creative expression, and adaptability
o Spontaneous synthesis and exploration of learned materials: music theory in action o Multiple contexts that espouse joy and the spirit of play through social interaction
- Musical (piano, voice, or other instrument)
- Solo, ensemble
- Movement
Dalcroze Education is an interactive process that develops skills in keen listening, music literacy, analysis, performance, improvisation, composition, and pedagogy. It is the combination of music, improvisation, and discovery-based, experiential learning that makes this work joyful, inspiring, and profound.
The Dalcroze educator specializes in music and movement relationships. These relationships can be applied to a variety of disciplines: music performance, music education, music therapy, dance, dramatic arts, and general education, among others. Learning through experience, discovery, and feeling is a hallmark of Dalcroze Education. Dalcroze Education embraces life-long learning and can be applied to students of all ages and levels. (Excerpt from DSA Certificate Teacher Training Manual)
Need financial assistance? Contact Jessica dalcroze4all@gmail.com or Emma emma.shubin@gmail.com/integral.steps@gmail.com
Curriculum will address:
• Musicianship
o Musical expression and understanding
o Active listening and inner hearing
o Music literacy
o Aural memory
o Visual memory
o Sight reading and dictation
o Choreography as related to music composition
• The body as an instrument of learning and expression
o The senses: aural (musical and verbal), visual, tactile, proprioceptive/kinesthetic
o Kinesthetic memory
o Motor control: coordination, balance, posture, and flexibility
o Spatial awareness
o Weight, quality, and intention as it relates to musical meaning, precision, and economy
o Movement vocabulary and technique
• Improvisation
o Imagination, creative expression, and adaptability
o Spontaneous synthesis and exploration of learned materials: music theory in action o Multiple contexts that espouse joy and the spirit of play through social interaction
- Musical (piano, voice, or other instrument)
- Solo, ensemble
- Movement
Dalcroze Education is an interactive process that develops skills in keen listening, music literacy, analysis, performance, improvisation, composition, and pedagogy. It is the combination of music, improvisation, and discovery-based, experiential learning that makes this work joyful, inspiring, and profound.
The Dalcroze educator specializes in music and movement relationships. These relationships can be applied to a variety of disciplines: music performance, music education, music therapy, dance, dramatic arts, and general education, among others. Learning through experience, discovery, and feeling is a hallmark of Dalcroze Education. Dalcroze Education embraces life-long learning and can be applied to students of all ages and levels. (Excerpt from DSA Certificate Teacher Training Manual)
Need financial assistance? Contact Jessica dalcroze4all@gmail.com or Emma emma.shubin@gmail.com/integral.steps@gmail.com
SoulWork for Sensitive People
Sunday, September 30th
1-4 pm
Interplayce
2273 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
$100
Sensitive people need practices that ground and protect as well as make space for joy and love. Through live and recorded music, creative movement, reflection, and playful, purposeful engagement with one another, we will develop deep listening and discover ways to give voice to the quiet currents of the soul. For this experience, Jessica draws upon the innovative, integrative music/movement -based methods of Dalcroze Education, the work of psychotherapist and soul activist Francis Weller, and the Body Wisdom of InterPlay Life Practice.
Jessica Schaeffer is a Bay-Area based professional harpist, certified Dalcroze instructor, and avid InterPlayer. A life-long tracker of the deeper rhythms and currents of the world, she is particularly interested in what is hidden, small, and the spaces between. She is a faculty member at the Crowden Music Center and an instructor at Holy Names University Preparatory Music Department. Jessica is also founder and coordinator for Bay Area Dalcroze Education, an initiative dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality opportunities to engage in and celebrate Dalcroze Education.
Emma Shubin @ San Jose State University
Sunday, April 29th
12:30-3:30pm
We are thrilled to be collaborating with San Jose State University to feature Dalcroze Education, with clinician Emma Shubin, as the final workshop in a three workshop series. This workshop is open to SJSU students as well as all community members!
Dalcroze Education: Unlocking audience engagement, student development, & personal musicianship through purposeful movement
The first half of this workshop will focus on applications of Dalcroze in performance: Emma will use the composition "Syrinx" by Claude Debussy to demonstrate how the listeners' experience of rhythm and form are heightened and clarified through Dalcroze exercises. In the second half of the workshop, we will learn Dalcroze approaches to learning and teaching meter, rhythm, phrasing as well as vocal, instrumental, and movement improvisation.
Flutist Emma Shubin is a Suzuki, Dalcroze, and Integrative Educator. Ms. Shubin is the co-founder and director of the Colorado based non-profit Integral Steps (www.integralsteps.org), which strives to bring integrative education and balanced development to individuals, families, and communities through music, movement, psychotherapy, ecology and creative arts.
She has served as the co-director of the Musical Arts Program with the Sounds of Lyons in Lyons, CO (SOL MAP) and has toured with the Arts Evolution and BenFeng Music Festival throughout Taiwan with guitarist Alfredo Muro. Currently, Ms. Shubin serves as the coordinator for new programming and an instructor with the Dalcroze School of the Rockies, and partners Integral Steps with the theater program for youth Reel Kids, the Longmont Dance Theater, and Rocky Ridge Music Academy in Colorado. Her first collaborative album of original compositions was created and recorded in Cabris France with musicians from France, England, & Colorado will be released in the fall. www.emmashubin.com.
The first half of this workshop will focus on applications of Dalcroze in performance: Emma will use the composition "Syrinx" by Claude Debussy to demonstrate how the listeners' experience of rhythm and form are heightened and clarified through Dalcroze exercises. In the second half of the workshop, we will learn Dalcroze approaches to learning and teaching meter, rhythm, phrasing as well as vocal, instrumental, and movement improvisation.
Flutist Emma Shubin is a Suzuki, Dalcroze, and Integrative Educator. Ms. Shubin is the co-founder and director of the Colorado based non-profit Integral Steps (www.integralsteps.org), which strives to bring integrative education and balanced development to individuals, families, and communities through music, movement, psychotherapy, ecology and creative arts.
She has served as the co-director of the Musical Arts Program with the Sounds of Lyons in Lyons, CO (SOL MAP) and has toured with the Arts Evolution and BenFeng Music Festival throughout Taiwan with guitarist Alfredo Muro. Currently, Ms. Shubin serves as the coordinator for new programming and an instructor with the Dalcroze School of the Rockies, and partners Integral Steps with the theater program for youth Reel Kids, the Longmont Dance Theater, and Rocky Ridge Music Academy in Colorado. Her first collaborative album of original compositions was created and recorded in Cabris France with musicians from France, England, & Colorado will be released in the fall. www.emmashubin.com.
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We could not be more excited to host Dr. Jeremy Dittus at Crowden October 8th, 2017!
Jeremy is one of the few Dalcroze practitioners in the world to possess the Diplôme Supérieur, the equivalent of a Doctorate in Dalcroze Education, and obtainable only through the Jaques-Dalcroze Institute in Geneva Switzerland. He is in demand as a workshop presenter throughout the United States and abroad, and is the Founder and Director of the Dalcroze School of the Rockies in Denver, CO.
He is known and loved for his energetic, engaging style, his experience and expertise in Dalcroze Education, and ability to work with students of all levels and abilities. Click on the documents below to read his full bio and brief introduction to Dalcroze Education.
Jeremy is one of the few Dalcroze practitioners in the world to possess the Diplôme Supérieur, the equivalent of a Doctorate in Dalcroze Education, and obtainable only through the Jaques-Dalcroze Institute in Geneva Switzerland. He is in demand as a workshop presenter throughout the United States and abroad, and is the Founder and Director of the Dalcroze School of the Rockies in Denver, CO.
He is known and loved for his energetic, engaging style, his experience and expertise in Dalcroze Education, and ability to work with students of all levels and abilities. Click on the documents below to read his full bio and brief introduction to Dalcroze Education.
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Watch the videos below for a brief demonstration of Dalcroze Education in action.
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